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1. "The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable." ~ Karl Kraus
2. "A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards." ~ Karl Kraus
3. "To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs." ~ Karl Kraus
4. "You don't even live once." ~ Karl Kraus
5. "Life is an effort that deserves a better cause." ~ Karl Kraus
6. "Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored." ~ Karl Kraus
7. "There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman." ~ Karl Kraus
8. "The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them." ~ Karl Kraus
9. "In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious." ~ Karl Kraus
10. "Ma dove troverò mai il tempo per non leggere tante cose?" ~ Karl Kraus
11. "I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up." ~ Karl Kraus
12. "To be perfect, one lacks only a defect." ~ Karl Kraus
13. "I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning." ~ Karl Kraus
14. "Quien calla una palabra es su dueño; quien la pronuncia es su esclavo." ~ Karl Kraus
15. "Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts." ~ Karl Kraus
16. "Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence." ~ Karl Kraus
17. "Wo nehm ich nur all die Zeit her, so viel nicht zu lesen?" ~ Karl Kraus
18. "Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben." ~ Karl Kraus
19. "Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country." ~ Karl Kraus
20. "How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print." ~ Karl Kraus
21. "Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots." ~ Karl Kraus
22. "Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world." ~ Karl Kraus
23. "Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes." ~ Karl Kraus
24. "Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust." ~ Karl Kraus
25. "Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis." ~ Karl Kraus
26. "Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match." ~ Karl Kraus
27. "To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all." ~ Karl Kraus
28. "Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower." ~ Karl Kraus
29. "A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants." ~ Karl Kraus
30. "No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist." ~ Karl Kraus
31. "A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer." ~ Karl Kraus
32. "Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow." ~ Karl Kraus
33. "My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious." ~ Karl Kraus
34. "If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies." ~ Karl Kraus
35. "A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful." ~ Karl Kraus
36. "Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work." ~ Karl Kraus
37. "Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy." ~ Karl Kraus
38. "Der Teufel ist ein Optimist, wenn er meint er könnte den Menschen schlechter machen." ~ Karl Kraus
39. "Uma mulher é, às vezes, uma alternativa satisfatória à masturbação. Claro que ela exige muito mais imaginação de nossa parte." ~ Karl Kraus
40. "Maschinelles Leben fördert, künstlerische Umgebung lähmt die innere Poesie." ~ Karl Kraus
41. "Nachdem er sich in der anarchistischen Partei unmöglich gemacht hatte, blieb ihm nichts mehr übrig, als ein nützliches Mitglied der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft zu werden und in die Sozialdemokratie einzutreten." ~ Karl Kraus
42. "Man hat mich oft gebeten, gerecht zu sein und eine Sache von allen Seiten zu betrachten. Ich habe es getan, in der Hoffnung, daß eine Sache vielleicht dadurch besser werden könnte, daß ich sie von allen Seiten betrachte. Aber ich kam zu dem gleichen Resultat. So blieb ich dabei, eine Sache nur von einer Seite zu betrachten, wodurch ich mir viel Arbeit und Enttäuschung erspare. Denn es ist tröstlich, eine Sache für schlecht zu halten und sich dabei auf ein Vorurteil ausreden zu können." ~ Karl Kraus
43. "Die Moralheuchler sind nicht darum hassenswert, weil sie anders tun, als sie bekennen, sondern weil sie anders bekennen, als sie tun. Wer die Moralheuchelei verdammt, muß peinlich darauf bedacht sein, daß man ihn nicht für einen Freund der Moral halte, die jene doch wenigstens insgeheim verraten. Nicht der Verrat an der Moral ist sträflich, sondern die Moral. Sie ist Heuchelei an und für sich. Nicht daß jene Wein trinken, sollte enthüllt werden, sondern daß sie Wasser predigen." ~ Karl Kraus
44. "Kindspech ist eben das, womit man auf die Welt kommt." ~ Karl Kraus
45. "»Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt." ~ Karl Kraus
46. "Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it." ~ Karl Kraus
47. "My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin." ~ Karl Kraus
48. "War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost." ~ Karl Kraus
49. "The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are." ~ Karl Kraus
50. "Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws." ~ Karl Kraus
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